Indo-China counterinsurgency doctrine was transplanted directly to Algeria

Evidence

With Ducournau the school of Indo-China arrived in Algeria. Setting up his headquarters in Arris, he immediately decided to pursue relentlessly the F.L.N. into the hills, living with the indigènes according to Mao’s often quoted principle of the “fish in water”, and taking with him as guides and trackers some of the loyal Chaouias that Jean Servier had recruited for the defence of Arris. — Horne, Alistair, A Savage War of Peace- Algeria 1954-1962, 328 (#corroborates, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Viet-Minh counterinsurgency experience transferred directly from Indo-China to Algeria — Horne, Alistair, A Savage War of Peace- Algeria 1954-1962, 328; Defeat in Indo-China turned French officers into practitioners of Maoist counter-revolutionary warfare — Horne, Alistair, A Savage War of Peace- Algeria 1954-1962, 504; the MOC “The Republic’s Impossible Embrace: How Universalism Turned Algeria from the Future of France into Its Undoing”

Related

• Viet-Minh counterinsurgency experience transferred directly from Indo-China to Algeria (similarity 0.92)
• Defeat in Indo-China turned French officers into practitioners of Maoist counter-revolutionary warfare (similarity 0.88)
• Algeria’s war began in the same year France lost Indo-China (similarity 0.85)
• Indo-China defeat taught French officers to wage revolutionary war using Maoist methods. (similarity 0.84)
• Siyad Barre built a Maoist-style personality cult as initial popularity faded (similarity 0.79)

Broader Connections

• Viet-Minh counterinsurgency experience transferred directly from Indo-China to Algeria #corroborates (0.95) — Horne, Alistair, A Savage War of Peace- Algeria 1954-1962, 328